The Notre Dame Football season has ended, but there’s still a lot of activity happening around the football stadium. Construction on Campus Crossroads, a $400 million project for the University of Notre Dame, is now underway. The largest project in school history will provide more than 750,000 square feet of new facilities supporting academic and […]
WEST LAFAYETTE — A Purdue University graduate student team claimed second place for its low-cost multipurpose utility vehicle for sub-Saharan Africa farmers at USAID’s Student Innovation Marketplace competition, an event that drew student teams from across the country. David Wilson and Jeremy Robison, who are both studying agricultural and biological engineering, used an innovation grant
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By: Ruth Crocker It appears that more women than ever are stepping up to positions of leadership, but the path is still not as clear and unobstructed as we might think. When Ella Fitzgerald, the queen of jazz, was asked the secret of her success, she said: “It’s simple, I owe it all to one
The Indiana District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recognized lenders that have helped Indiana small businesses. In fiscal year 2014, SBA guaranteed 1,366 loans totaling $468,426,000 for Indiana small businesses. This year the SBA Indiana District Office added a new recipient category for the SBA Lender Awards. The SBA Indiana District Director’s
Porter Health Care System will offer the following monthly support groups in January: Breast Cancer Support Group – Hope & Healing Porter Regional Hospital offers Hope & Healing, a support group for people coping with breast cancer, whether newly diagnosed or a long-term survivor. The group offers emotional support, information, education, and guest speakers. It
VALPARAISO — Valparaiso University has again been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, joining a group of select universities and colleges across the country that are honored for their support of volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. In addition to receiving distinction for general community service, Valpo was named with
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WEST LAFAYETTE — An agriscience company that develops and markets precision agricultural technologies has expanded its staff for a second time this year with the addition of three professionals to help lead the company’s engineering and sales departments. Spensa Technologies Inc., a Purdue Research Park-based company, has hired Chad Aeschliman as director of engineering, Nathan
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MUNSTER — Patients who have suffered a painful compression fracture of the spine now have a new minimally-invasive treatment option. Surgeon Mark Chang, MD, on staff at Community Hospital in Munster is first orthopedic specialist in the state of Indiana to treat a patient with a vertebral compression fracture (VCF) using the new Kiva VCF
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